8-habit-ai-dev replaces ad-hoc AI prompting with a structured 7-step workflow: Research → Requirements → Design → Breakdown → Build Brief → Review → Deploy. Each step maps to one of Stephen Covey's 8 Habits, providing both practical discipline and principled reasoning. Key features: - 17 hand-crafted skills with DAG-validated handoff chain - 472 automated assertions across 4 validator scripts (structure, skill-graph, content, verbosity) - Whole Person Model assessment (Body/Mind/Heart/Spirit scoring) - Maturity-adaptive verbosity via /calibrate (Dependence → Interdependence) - /reflect with dream-inspired lesson consolidation - /cross-verify 17-question checklist covering all 8 Habits - Composes cleanly with claude-governance plugin for compliance enforcement Pure markdown plugin — no runtime dependencies, no MCP servers, no external services.